India Tech Report – India Tech Report
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India’s first S&T and innovation conclave, Eli Lilly’s $1 bln plan
07 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Daily brief on deep tech and climate tech from India and around the world. Minister Dr. Jitendra Singh launches Emerging Science, Technology & Inn...
The Climate on Monday: SusVentures, BITS-P founders residency – apply soon
06 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Daily brief on deep tech and climate tech news from India and around the world. Climate change is disrupting global wind patternsClimate change is dis...
ViewPoint: What excites VCs and when will India’s deep tech startups get there
03 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Sharp insights from founders, investors, industry executives, and other stakeholders in India’s deep tech and climate tech, in their own words. ...
Ganapathy Subramaniam on Yali’s deep tech startup bets in India — Part 1
30 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In-depth conversations with founders, investors, industry leaders, and other stakeholders building India’s deep tech and climate tech ecosystems...
Coming up: Ganapathy Subramaniam on Yali’s deep tech bets in India – Part 1
26 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In-depth conversations with founders, investors, industry leaders, and other stakeholders building India’s deep tech and climate tech ecosystems...
India data centre tax breaks, a new Menlo partner, and rumblings of an AI bubble
16 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Daily brief on deep tech and climate tech news from India and around the world. India plans 20-year tax exemption, GST credits to boost data centresTh...
Engineer, operator, VC: Ravi Jain at TDK Ventures on India’s deep tech scene
16 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In-depth conversations with founders, investors, industry leaders, and other stakeholders building India’s deep tech and climate tech ecosystems...
The Climate on Monday: Meet the 11 startups in Amazon’s latest ClimateTech cohort
15 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Daily brief on deep tech and climate tech news from India and around the world. Union Minister Gadkari unveils roadmap for sustainable transport at SI...
Coming up: Ravi Jain at TDK Ventures on the promise of India’s rising deep tech ecosystem
12 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In-depth conversations with founders, investors, industry leaders and other stakeholders building India’s deep tech and climate tech ecosystems....
India announces plan for full solar value chain, also boosts support for green hydrogen
12 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Daily brief on deep tech and climate tech news from India and around the world. Quantum reference hub launched in Amaravati The Andhra Pradesh governm...
HAL to make small space rockets with ISRO tech transfer
11 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Daily brief on deep tech and climate tech news from India and around the world. Komatsu invests in autonomous mining with AI Komatsu has announced wha...
Aavishkaar plans deep tech fund, UoH opens protein research centre
10 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Daily brief on deep tech and climate tech news from India and around the world. (Note: This is an updated post. The previous version included an incor...
AI + capitalism = few rich and many more poor, says Geoffrey Hinton
09 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Daily brief on deep tech and climate tech news from India and around the world. India’s first telecom system with indigenous chips gets TEC certific...
The Climate on Monday: Nobel laureate urges rich nations to share green tech freely
08 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Daily brief on deep tech and climate tech news from India and around the world. Nobel laureate urges open sharing of climate technologies Joseph Stigl...
CynLr, IISc in nature-inspired robotic vision innovation pact
05 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Japan’s TDK Corp. sets up Haryana plant to make 200 million lithium-ion battery packs India’s Electronics and IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw ina...
India approves Rs. 1,500 crore critical mineral recyling plan
04 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Daily brief on deep tech and climate tech news from India and around the world. Indian cabinet approves Rs.1,500 crore plan for mineral recycling Indi...
The power of eight: US and desi VCs team up for $1 billion India deep tech alliance
03 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Daily brief on deep tech and climate tech news from India and around the world. First Made-in-India chips as semiconductor mission accelerates Prime M...
India’s AI data centre landscape expands: OpenAI’s giga plant, RIL’s deep tech unit
02 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Daily brief on deep tech and climate tech news from Indian and around the world. OpenAI to build multi-gigawatt AI data center in India, expanding loc...
India’s path to semiconductor leadership: 5 takeaways from a conversation with GS Madhusudan at Incore
02 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Takeaways from conversations with founders, investors, industry leaders, and other stakeholders building India’s deep tech and climate tech ecosyste...
IN-SPACe signs five ISRO tech transfer deals, C-CAMP names NBEC winners
28 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Daily brief on deep tech and climate tech news from India and around the world. IN-SPACe signs five ISRO tech transfer deals with Indian firms IN-SPAC...
Happy Ganesha Chaturthi, and India Tech Report has its own website
27 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dear esteemed listener and reader. Happy Ganesha Chaturthi — one of the most auspicious days in the Indian calendar for many. As you may know, in Hi...
RISC-V and beyond: GS Madhusudan at Incore Semiconductors on building India's chip industry future
22 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In-depth conversations with founders, investors, industry leaders, and other stakeholders building India’s deep tech and climate tech ecosystems...
growX leads PeelON’s seed funding for green packaging for produce, and more
21 Aug 2025
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Daily brief on deep tech and climate tech news from India and around the world. C-CAMP announces date for bio entrepreneurship competition finaleC-CAM...
Coming up: GS Madhusudan at Incore Semiconductors on India’s fast evolving chip ecosystem
20 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In-depth conversations with founders, investors, industry leaders, and other stakeholders building India’s deep tech and climate tech ecosystems...
Abhijit Bhutey and Vishal Reddy on Inbound Aerospace's microgravity platform in space
14 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In-depth conversations with founders, investors, industry leaders, and other stakeholders building India’s deep tech and climate tech ecosystems...
Ultraviolette, Eyestem raise more funding, smart electrolytes for fast charging, and more
13 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Daily brief on deep tech and climate tech news from India and around the world. ISRO deems Skyroot’s static test of KALAM 1200 solid motor a success...
PixxelSpace consortium bags IN-SPACe deal to build India's first private Earth observation satellite network
12 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Daily brief on deep tech and climate tech news from India and around the world. A consortium led by PixxelSpace India has won a contract from Indian N...
Coming up: Founders of Inbound Aerospace on advanced manufacturing opportunities in microgravity
12 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In-depth conversations with founders, investors, industry leaders, and other stakeholders building India’s deep tech and climate tech ecosystems...
Manastu raises $3 million to advance green rocket propulsion tech, and more
12 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Daily brief on deep tech and climate tech news from India and around the world. Speciale Invest closes Fund III at Rs 600 crore to double down on deep...
ViewPoint: Career advice for students that applies even beyond science and engineering
06 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Sharp insights from founders, investors, and industry leaders, in their own words. ViewPoint Here’s a deep tech founder’s sincere career advice fo...
ViewPoint: Talent, the biggest bottleneck, and the difference between the US and India
04 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Sharp Insights from founders, investors, and industry leaders, in their own words. What would you say is the biggest bottleneck preventing Indian Deep...
Historic NASA-ISRO satellite launched, Harvard researchers show quantum optical systems breakthrough, and more
01 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Daily brief on deep tech and climate tech news from India and around the world. ISRO, NASA launch historic NISAR satellite to revolutionize Earth obse...
India tests Pralay missile, Meta’s wristband breakthrough, Hyundai and IITM set up Hydrogen hub, and more
31 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Daily brief on deep tech and climate tech news from India and around the world. DRDO successfully tests Pralay indigenous quasi-ballistic missileDefen...
ViewPoint: How design can lower the barriers to adoption of AMRs among SMBs
30 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Sharp insights from founders, investors, and industry leaders, in their own words. ViewPoint Catch the full conversation
A drone that can keep flying, ultra efficient chips, Endiya's new partner, and more
30 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Daily brief on deep tech and climate tech news from India and around the world. Wipro Infrastructure Engineering launches new division with $60 millio...
Wipro Infrastructure Engineering to invest $60 mln in advanced PCB materials plant
29 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Daily brief on deep tech and climate tech news from India and around the world. Wipro Infrastructure Engineering has unveiled a new division, Wipro El...
Rishabh Agarwal at PeerRobotics on breaking the adoption barriers for collaborative robots
29 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In depth conversations with founders, investors, industry leaders, and other stakeholders building India’s deep tech and climate tech ecosystems...
India's deep tech edge: 5 takeaways from a conversation with Arpit Agarwal at Blume Ventures
28 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Takeaways from conversations with founders, investors, industry leaders and other stakeholders building India’s deep tech and climate tech ecosy...
Climate on Monday: Northvolt attracts buyers, Energy Dome and Google team up, Avalanche's desktop fusion, and more
28 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Daily brief on deep tech and climate tech news from India and around the world. India’s rollback of SO₂ norms related to clean air targets draws c...
ViewPoint: India's untapped strengths in deep tech versus China's scale advantage
27 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Sharp insights from founders, investors, and industry leaders, in their own words. ViewPoint Catch the full conversation
ViewPoint: How the entire clean hydrogen supply chain is taking shape in India
26 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Sharp insights from founders, investors, and industry leaders, in their own words. ViewPoint Catch the full conversation
Friday Deep Tech Wrap: Infosys, Tata back Yali’s $104 million deep tech fund, US-India satellite launch, and more
25 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Daily brief on deep tech and climate tech news from India and around the world. AstraZeneca to build $50 billion US manufacturing facilityAstraZeneca ...
ViewPoint: What VCs are watching in deep tech in India
23 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Sharp insights from founders, investors, and industry leaders, in their own words. ViewPoint Catch the full conversation
ViewPoint: Is a sector agnostic fund better for a deep tech founder?
23 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Sharp insights from founders, investors, and industry leaders, in their own words. ViewPoint Catch the full conversation
Inside Ati Motors’ vision for industrial robots: Indian engineering for global markets
23 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today, I wanted to bring you one story that caught my imagination last week, about how Indian engineering could go global – not just in software, bu...
Arpit Agarwal on the India advantage in deep tech and Blume’s next fund
22 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Conversations with founders, investors, industry leaders, and other stakeholders building India’s deep tech and climate tech ecosystems. My guest in...
Climate on Monday: Transvolt funded in IFC’s first EV fleet investment, a solar PV efficiency breakthrough, 1.7°C, and more
21 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Daily brief on deep tech and climate tech news from India and around the world. India set to mandate climate risk disclosures for banks by 2028India’...
Deep Tech on Friday: QpiAI funding, Accel's love affair with no-code, why chain-of-thought is critical to AI safety, and more
18 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Daily brief on deep tech and climate tech news from India and around the world. One Biosciences raises €15 million to accelerate precision oncologyP...
10 years of Digital India, Ex-Waymo techies raise $80 mln, Ati Motors’ unveil, and more
17 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Daily brief on deep tech and climate tech news from India and around the world. India marks 10 years of Digital India, expands AI training for rural c...
Together backs Gibran's ‘scale free’ AI, Tesla starts with Model Y in India, and more
15 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Daily brief on deep tech and climate tech news from India and around the world. Tesla launches Model Y in India at premium price, opens first showroom...
The Climate on Monday: a brief on SusMafia’s collaborative summit SusCrunch 2025
14 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Daily brief on deep tech and climate tech news from India and around the world. For today’s episode of The Climate on Monday, I thought I’d br...
Building Vimano: 10 takeaways from a conversation with Murari Ramkumar and Nagesh Kini
13 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Notes from conversations with entrepreneurs, investors, industry leaders, and other stakeholders building India’s deep tech and climate tech eco...
Friday Deep Tech Wrap: Varda Space raises $187 million, Airalo a unicorn, and more
11 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Daily brief on deep tech and climate tech news from India and around the world. India launches ₹10,000 crore second tranche of deep tech fund Union ...
Robotic gallbladder surgery, how Quantum ML could boost chip manufacturing, and more
10 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Daily brief on deep tech and climate tech news from India and around the world. Robot performs first realistic gallbladder surgery autonomously A John...
Why humanoid robots are the next big thing in AI, AWS’s Space Accelerator in India, and more
09 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Daily brief on deep tech and climate tech news from India and around the world. AWS launches dedicated space accelerator for startups in India Amazon ...
Vimano’s nanotech journey: a conversation with Murari Ramkumar and Nagesh Kini
08 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Conversations with entrepreneurs, investors, industry leaders, and other stakeholders building India’s deep tech and climate tech ecosystems. My...
The Climate on Monday: Green Climate Fund’s record mandate, Crosstown’s innovative hydrogen retrofit, and more
07 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Daily brief on deep tech and climate tech news from India and around the world. Green Climate Fund approves record $1.2 billion for climate projects i...
The EV opportunity in India: 10 takeaways from a conversation with Kunal Khattar
03 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Notes from conversations with entrepreneurs, investors, industry leaders, and other stakeholders building India’s deep tech and climate tech eco...
Khosla, Eclipse fund Genesis AI’s vision for robotics foundation model, Climeworks hits $1 bln, and more
03 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Daily brief on deep tech and climate tech news from India and around the world Amazon deploys one million robots, launches AI to boost warehouse effic...
India approves $12 billion R&D and I fund, Loopworm’s insect protein tech, Aureka’s sustainable diamonds get Peak XV sparkle, and more
02 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Daily brief on deep tech and climate tech news from India and around the world Google signs landmark deal with Commonwealth Fusion Systems to commerci...
How LogicFlo’s AI empowers life sciences experts, Genrobotics Bandicoots in Chennai sewers, and more
01 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Daily brief on deep tech and climate tech news from India and around the world. BEML inaugurates aerospace SEZ facility in Bengaluru, lays foundation ...
The Climate on Monday: Big Tech’s net zero goals unrealistic, researchers say, India in SDG 100 for the first time, and more
30 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Daily news on deep tech and climate tech from India and around the world Tech Giants’ Net Zero Goals May Be Unachievable Amid AI Data Center Boo...
Ending the ICE age: Kunal Khattar on the trillion dollar EV opportunity in India
30 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Conversations with entrepreneurs, investors, industry leaders, and other stakeholders building India’s deep tech and climate tech ecosystems My ...
Deep tech wrap on Friday: Green hydrogen solutions rise in India, aerospace startup Raphe scores $100 million, and more
27 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Daily brief on deep tech and climate tech news from India and around the world JuliaHub unveils Dyad to accelerate hardware development with AI-powere...
Autonomous mobile robots: Five takeaways from a conversation with Saurabh Chandra at Ati Motors
26 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Takeaways from conversations with entrepreneurs, investors, industry leaders, and other stakeholders building India’s deep tech and climate tech...
After 40 years an Indian in space, Bosch and Mindgrove, SolarSquare in WEF, Ather’s day, and more
26 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ax-4 mission marks historic return to space for India, Poland, and Hungary Axiom Mission 4 launched on June 25th, sending astronauts from India, Polan...
Muon and Rocket Lab’s launches, Krystal Biotech’s gene therapy, SunHydrogen’s pilot, EKA Mobility, and more
25 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Daily brief on deep tech and climate tech news in India and around the world Muon Space launches Hydrosat’s VanZyl-2 mission with advanced climate d...
The climate on Monday: nations lag targets, India’s EV 2-wheeler makers, Integrum’s IPO and more
23 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Daily brief on deep tech and climate tech news from India and around the world Most countries fall behind on climate targets as progress slows in 2025...
Autonomous mobile robots: Saurabh Chandra at Ati Motors on the future of manufacturing
23 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Conversations with entrepreneurs, investors, industry leaders, and other stakeholders building India’s deep tech and climate tech ecosystems My ...
Rare-Earth free electric motors: Six takeaways from a conversation with Bhaktha Keshavachar at Chara
20 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Notes from conversations with entrepreneurs, investors, industry leaders, and other stakeholders building India’s deep tech and climate tech eco...
TI’s $60 billion US plan, L&T’s second ESG bond, Embedl’s edge-AI tech, Neoclease’s gene-editing platform, and more
19 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Daily brief on deep tech and climate tech from India and around the world. Texas Instruments commits $60 billion to semiconductor expansion The invest...
Nasa seeking feedback, China’s quantum advances, solid state batteries, India’s semicon SEZ rules and more
18 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Daily brief on deep tech and climate tech from India and around the world. NASA seeks commercial feedback for future space communication networks NASA...
Space tech startups Impulse, Muon, fusion venture Proxima raise funding, AC setting rules in India
17 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Daily brief on deep tech and climate tech news from India and around the world. Impulse Space raises $300 million to expand space tug fleet for satell...
Rare-Earth free: Bhaktha Keshavachar on Chara’s strategic mission, one motor at a time
16 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In-depth conversations with founders, investors, industry leaders, and other stakeholders building India’s deep tech and climate tech ecosystems...
The Climate on Monday: clean tech 2X, climate finance in India, a boost for SAF, synthetic graphite, and more
16 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Daily brief on deep tech and climate tech from India and around the world. Global clean tech investments to hit 2X versus fossil fuels in 2025 Investm...
Lab to deep tech startup: 5 takeaways from a conversation with Karthee Madasamy at MFV Partners
13 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Early-stage VC firms partnering universities to identify and back promising deep-tech startups is a well-established practice in the US. What lessons ...
Deep tech wrap on Friday: Pixxel sparks at iDEX, Hyperbots funding, AI4Bharat gets second Nilekani grant, and more
13 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Mistral AI has introduced Mistral Code, a new enterprise-focused coding assistant designed to compete directly with GitHub Copilot. The tool offers on...
TruAlt OMC, Eastman Li-ion batteries, BEL AI, IIT Madras entrepreneurship, Greaves Electric MD
11 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Daily brief on deep tech and climate tech from India and around the world. TruAlt Bioenergy gains OMC status, to launch 100 flex-fuel retail outlets a...
From uni lab to deep tech startup: Karthee Madasamy on the Harper Court fund experience
10 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Conversations with entrepreneurs, investors, industry leaders and other stakeholders building India’s deep tech and climate tech ecosystems. My gues...
IonQ to buy Oxford Ionics, NASA science to be ripped in half, Bhashini for railways and Vecmocon’s funding
10 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Daily brief on deep tech and climate tech from India and around the world. US scientists alarmed as Trump’s proposed budget slashes NASA science fun...
The Climate on Monday: Shipping industry, Microsoft’s deal, Gridcare, DAC, and Stride Green
09 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Daily brief on deep tech and climate tech from India and around the world. Shipping industry faces hurdles as it navigates new net zero rules The ship...
In Conversation with Vishal Kataria at Ankur Capital: My Top 10 Takeaways
08 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On World Environment Day, my guest on India Tech Report: In Conversation was Vishal Kataria, a member of the investment team at Ankur Capital, an...
Vishal Katariya at Ankur Capital on the climate tech opportunity in India
08 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
My guest today is Vishal Katariya, a member of the investment team at Ankur Capital, an early-stage venture capital firm in Mumbai. Vishal is bas...
Deep tech India momentum: 10 noteworthy developments so far in 2025
06 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
India’s deep tech sector gains momentum through April 2025 India’s deep tech sector witnessed some serious momentum heading into May. Notably,...
India’s AI and deep tech opportunity, Jua raises funding for Earth simulation, and a New Mexico deep tech coalition
05 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
India poised to become global leader in AI and deep tech, say experts India is at a pivotal moment to lead the world in artificial intelligence and de...
Amitabh Kant wants an Indian DARPA, Tata seeks Malaysian chip plant, Neuralink advances, and an NZ deep tech fund
04 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Tata Electronics eyes Malaysia chip fab acquisition to boost semiconductor expertise Tata Electronics is in talks to acquire a semiconductor fabricati...
BharatGen AI, Ather and Infineon, China’s rare earth India impact, and MFV’s new pre-seed fund
03 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
India launches Bharat Gen, first government-funded multimodal AI language model for Indian languages Union Minister Dr. Jitendra Singh launched Bharat...
India’s AI GPU capacity, Tata’s strategic investments, Wipro’s CTO on quantum technologies
02 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
India’s AI GPU capacity hits 34,000 units India’s national compute capacity has surpassed 34,000 GPUs, significantly boosting the IndiaAI Mission’...